I wonder if it is me who picks a topic or a topic that picks me. This one for December is a challenge. At the Quaker meeting this past Sunday a person who had just lost a very old and beloved grandfather asked this question: “What completes a Life?” It is a big question and […]
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Simplicity
Sometimes everything can seem like too much. A longing for simplicity arises, the kind that is chosen . . . the kind that is doing less and being more. Phrases Posted on Facebook, December 2022 When we feel overwhelmed, choosing what to do feels nearly impossible. Everything appears to be of equal importance, and if […]
Transformation
There can be change that is cataclysmic, and we are forced to adapt. But that may not transform us. To transform inwardly is a deep and mysterious process, something good to mull over. Phrases Posted on Facebook, November 2022 Makeovers are an attempt to transform us into more physical attractiveness with the hope that such […]
Growing
Nature’s growing season is almost over in the Northeast. The days are getting darker. Another kind of growing season is just beginning . . . the inward kind that takes place mostly in silence and in quiet introspection. Phrases Posted on Facebook, October 2022 What a delight when the baby first smiles, first says Mama […]
Asking Questions
Like a snail, a good question carries its answer on its back. Don’t underestimate the first answer that comes to mind when you are asked something spontaneously. Phrases Posted on Facebook, September 2022 When did you last practice waltzing with a two year old? You’ll remember the smiles long after the music is gone. Play […]
Wanting What Is Already True
How amazing to want what is already true. It is a mysterious path worthy of engagement. Can you see? Can you hear? Can you walk? Can you talk? Can you hug? Can you love? “To them that have more shall be given” is a true saying. The moment we realize the gifts that are already […]
Making Sense of Things
Sensible, sensitive, sensational, sensitized, senseless . . . there are so many words that apply to our senses that are, after all, our antennae out to the world and into “the deep impenetrable interior” as Rudyard Kipling describes the inner world. So much hinges on how we relate with them and to them. I’m awed […]
Flowering
Some of us remember making May Day baskets with flowers to give away to friends and family. Why not have flowering as a theme now that the trees are leafing out. The bulbs are blooming. Seedlings are rising like a green chorus from the ground and we delight. When a person we know flowers may […]
The One Thing
What gave us inexplicable joy when we were little? Somewhere in the soul’s deep archives that one thing that turned us on still IS alive and well. It was meant for us somehow, and it began our inner and outer journeys. By taking time we might still feel it and be filled and renewed. Phrases […]
Refreshment
Long about now when we are tired of winter, tired of dirty snow, and old routines, we long for something fresh. To mull refreshment seems a good thing in the month of March. Phrases Posted on Facebook, March 2022 True refreshment can’t be commanded. Preparing and eating a sumptuous feast with all we think is […]